I got some skin/joint stuff that ain't going away by ignoring it :( Time to take it seriously and follow through with medicines & follow-up appointments etc

damn that mosquito thing sounds annoying. is there a post-bite remedy thing one could put on them, something that moisturizes maybe?

1. I find that I am increasingly stiff when I've been sitting for long periods. As I'm in a job that's largely sedentary, I hobble about like an old lady when I get up. It's particularly bed when I get up in the morning. I need to start doing yoga or something.

2. I have a little skin tag growing on my inner thigh. A dermatologist looked at it about a year ago and just laughed and said it was just from getting old. Fucker.

WARNING, THE NEXT ONE IS REALLY GROSS.






3. I've found over the last few years that if I eat too much refined sugar over too long a time I get the most horrible bacterial infection on my brow. I end up with a swollen, painful forehead and it doesn't come up to a head or anything, but it's really tender and sore, and I have to wait for it to go down by itself. Except once, when it came to a massive head and this sort of greenish-grey pus came out (on the morning I was going to a wedding. I looked like the fucking Elephant Man in the photos). If I try to speed it up by putting antiseptic on it, the sensitive skin on my forehead shrivels and peels. Kill me now.

But on the plus side, my psorasis is the clearest it's been in ages. I have no idea why, I'm not doing anything different. It's cyclical and in a year's time I might look like a leper, but right now it's behaving itself.

I spent my entire childhood barefoot. My feet were like leather. And I've never minded walking miles and miles and miles, and never had problems. So why, now, does it seem like there is no pair of shoes I can wear without turning my feet into an abraded mess? Seriously - flip flops, sneakers, dress shoes, good walking shoes - it hardly matters. Suddenly my feet are constantly irritated by some part of the shoe or other, or the overall shape of the arch, or whatever. I feel like an old lady who's only going to be able to wear orthopaedics from now on.

On the other hand, honestly, I feel pretty good these days. Apart from needing to get back in shape. Summer is pretty good for my mental, emotional, and physical health.

The poison ivy on my feet is totally unbearable and I'm afraid it's infected now in a couple of places where I've scratched and scratched. It just keeps right on popping up, too, little lovely lines of blisters between my toes and around my ankles. Actually it makes a perfect line of the shoes I was wearing the last time I mowed the lawn, coincidentally hah. Damnit. It's my own stupid fault - I know I'm incredibly allergic, I know I have to be careful but after a couple of years without a major outbreak, I got sloppy. Back to showering immediately with strong soap every. single. time. I garden or hike or do pretty much anything outdoors in the summer.

Oh, boy, here goes... My knees cause me to bend for something on the floor like a ninety-year-old man; I sometimes have to leap out of bed in the middle of the night to walk off the motherfucking painful cramps in my feet; I have two broken molars I'm too chicken-shit to go get fixed; my boobs stick to my belly (ever seen the comic Naughty Bits? I can relate.); I often wake up three or four times a night to pee; I seem to be growing a beard; there are suspicious spots on my shins; I'm overdue for a colonoscopy (my father had colon cancer at 50, and my uncle died of it in his forties); and (beware, gross) my period gets so heavy a couple days a month the toilet looks like cherry Kool-Aid. Aren't you sorry you aksed? :)

Senyar, in the last month I have stiffly attempted to stand at the conclusion of meetings and gotten the following comments: "Is that from the ministry of silly walks?" and "How's the walking going there, Bambi?" Different instances. I have made a vow not to complain and laugh along, because it's only going to get worse!

My right shoulder hurts. Not a lot, but stiff and keeping me awake. What's the only thing I've done different lately? Carried a water bottle during my lunchtime walks. Have I really pulled a muscle over a water bottle?!

is there a post-bite remedy thing one could put on them, something that moisturizes maybe?

Yep, I use some stuff that works pretty well, with phenol and benzocaine in it. Takes the itch right out. The problem is when I wake up in the middle of the night and I've been scratching...

Oh, dear, where do I start?

My hands and wrists hurt all the time. I've seen a neurologist and it's nerve damage combined with arthritis. Does that stop me from spending most of my day clutching a mouse? No, of course it doesn't.

I fell three years ago and wrenched my left knee. It swelled so much my leg was pretty much the same circumference from thigh to ankle. Did I go to the doctor? No, of course I didn't. My left knee has never really recovered.

My feet hurt, to some extent, most of the time due to peripheral neuropathy (diabetic don'tcha know). You know the feeling when a limb falls "asleep"? Like that only a thousand times worse. And when my ankles swell it hurts even worse.

The ankle swelling? It started a couple summers ago when I was on my feet a lot. Now it happens even when it's cold and I'm on my arse most of the day.

And most nights I deal with either Restless Leg Syndrome, calf cramps or feet cramps or any combination of the three.

My back is pretty much a constant mass of snarled bits of nerves and muscle and is always tense. Been that way since high school. Sometimes I think I'll be crippled by the time I'm 30.

Oh Jesus, I've had too many beers to go into my aches and pains, but I wanted to tell you what to do post-mosquito bite: run hot hot hot water on it until your nerves are scrambled and the hot water feels cool. The relief lasts for hours!

I'm fine as long as I don't do anything. Any type of athletic activity that I do has a habit of ripping or breaking parts or me. Of course if I don't do anything, I'd weigh 300 pounds so there's a trade off but I do seem to break myself fairly regularly.

The bone spur on my right heel is slowly transforming my life into one long scream of misery and suffering. I'm in agony as soon as there's any pressure on it at all (shoes, socks, standing etc). It's been nearly two years and there's no signs of it easing, I hobble everywhere like a 90 year old, the pain is killing me and I've gained all the weight back that I lost last year because I can't exercise. The pain meds do nothing.

I am right at the end of my tether.

I'm young, so mine are unimpressive. It's all relative, though, right?

I have a blackhead on my upper lip that has been there for the past decade. No amount of scrubbing will make it go away. Home remedy advice is welcome.

My feet and lower legs get bit up. I must be pretty allergic to biting things, because folks are always impressed. I guess I'm just used to itching all summer long.

Discovered a few weeks ago that I can no longer do the splits whenever I feel like it. Guess it's time to start stretching!

Wow I feel pretty lucky. Although I'm covered in stupid insect bites now it's rainy season I only ache a little in my legs today from a 30km ride yesterday.

And just got back from another one so I'd better do some streeeeetching.

My complaints are mostly all mental, except for my right ankle, which I sprained years ago. It never really healed properly, and now it starts to ache if I don't support it properly for long periods of time.

My knees take turns being painful and creaky, but I still punish them by playing volleyball and riding my bike everywhere. Like Miko's my feet do not like Summer: a dry and abraided mess even with all of the cream I slather all over them.

I am overdue for a pet scan. The oncologist said they would schedule and call me but they haven't. I know I should call but sorta don't want to. With the 12 lb. I have put on since fall, hard to believe I have any cancer anywhere though.

Sitting out in the yard in my boxers and a loose tank top now. . if it were tighter I could be one of those sweaty guys in a wife-beater. I mean it only got up to 96, but a dry 96 but it still feels miserable.

I'm probably jinxing myself by saying so, but I'm 45 years old and I have no age-related aches or pains at all. My mom was already on her way to being crippled by arthritis at my age. My dad seems to be doing okay at almost 70, so I guess (and hope) I'm taking after his side of the family in the joints department.

I have to be careful how I sit when I'm at a computer, at work and at home, because sometimes I sit too long in one position and strain the back muscles a bit. That can take me a week or more to get over. Other than that, no aches or pains here, and believe me I do not take that for granted.

Oh yeah forgot to mention I'm almost 39.

Now I remember when I was preggo and after for a while I had this stupid sharp pain in my thigh but that seems to have gone completely now.

I do have a dull thudding pain all over my body at night but I'm hoping that soon he will be convinced to sleep by himself in a big boy bed and that co-sleeping with Mummy is over.

I threw out my back sneezing.

I'm 42 and I mourn the loss of the highest register when I'm singing. For a lot of pop and rock songs the male singers part is rather high. Maybe the upper end of the range of a tenor. I used to be able to do those parts fine in spite of being a bariton. I even was able to sing all parts of the Baroque opera Pygmalion. Including the sopranos parts singing in a falsetto.
But apparently my vocal chords are less elastic or something like that. I can't sing as high anymore and I need more 'warming up' to sing high at all.
Boohoo.
Où sont les neiges d'antan?

youch you guys! you're almost making me feel healthy. Almost.
IANOD, but Aniola - don't scrub. Steam, then squeeze.
Nina - temporarily get a stylish cane? Also, heel spurs are supposed to be a reaction to tight muscles - have all your trigger points in your leg and foot been worked on?

I don't have any aches and pains at the moment. Knock on wood.

I have a blackhead on my upper lip that has been there for the past decade. No amount of scrubbing will make it go away. Home remedy advice is welcome.

I live for this kind of stuff. I know. I'm gross.

Get some Proactive and cleanse and treat for a couple of weeks. If that doesn't work, which it sounds like it probably won't, cleanse face, drape your head with a towel and steam face over a pot of simmering water to soften the blackhead. With the end of a bobby pin (called grips in the UK) press on blackhead and see if you can extract it. If it is deeply embedded you can buy a scalpel. A scalpel seam ripper will be easy to access. Sterilize the scalpel with rubbing alcohol and very judiciously cut the top layer of skin and start pressing with the bobby pin, or manually squeeze with clean fingers. Wash your face and apply astringent or Neosporin.

judiciously isn't the right word, but you know what I mean.

Sweet, thanks LoriFLA. I'll try that!

Or get a facial, that's what got rid of those blackheads around my nose I thought were NEVER going away.